Friday, April 18, 2008

Something for Rilgon and Pike

Hey guys,This isn't WoW-related as such, but it's something I wanted to offer to any Linux or UNIX users who might read this; Rilgon and Pike primarily, but anyone else who's interested.

Although I don't use Linux myself now really, back when I did, for a while I was working on a Linux-specific version of the FreeBSD ports system. (A source-based software installer; actually the one which Gentoo's portage was originally based on, for those of you who know about that)

It's very closely related; moreso than Gentoo's system, actually, which from what little I saw was bash based. My own core makefile is more or less a simplified version of the original bsd.port.mk, and also uses NetBSD's version of Make as well. I was in the process of fairly substantially restructuring it when I more or less completely abandoned it, largely because the few people who knew about it told me that the software installation problem had been well and truly solved, and all I was really doing was wasting time.

I have no idea whether or not anyone reading this could have any use for it, but even though I don't work on Linux at all myself now as I said, I put a fair bit of work into this at one point, so it'd be good if someone could get some sort of use out of it.

It's very rough; you'll need to pull it out of CVS directly as I never actually made a tarball for it, but it is thoroughly documented, both in a readme and in the code itself. There are also working targets for fetch, (download) configure, make, and make install. I never got checksum working, but it shouldn't be hard to do. I had a very experimental target for binary packaging in the works, but never got that to successfully function, either.

Of perhaps slightly more interest to Pike might be the fact that although they're unfinished, I also started producing Makefiles for the phase one packages from the Linux From Scratch project; so Pike, if you ever wanted to make a completely custom system, you'd have the basis at least for a means of compiling it.

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Survival Hunter on the Jubei'Thos Oceanic server within World of Warcraft.mirshalak@gmail.com

I am a ghost of the Burning Crusade, back for the Cataclysm, after largely having sat out WoTLK. Unlike who knows how many others, I have not joined the exodus through the Rift; at least not yet. My secondary game (or primary, really) at this point is Minecraft.

I'm the living definition of casual at this point. I quest, farm, play the auction house, and dream of past glories.

"If you get what you want in your struggle for self,And the world makes you king for a day,Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't a man's father, mother or wife,Whose judgement upon him must pass,The fellow whose verdict counts most in his life,Is the man staring back from the glass.

He's the fellow to please, never mind the rest,For he's with you clear up to the end,And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test,If the man in the glass is your friend.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,And get pats on the back as you pass,But your final reward wil be heartache and tears,If you've cheated the man in the glass."-- A convict; found on the walls of his cell."The way is emptiness,Yet practice it and it seems inexhaustible,Fathomless and still,Yet all life seems to spring from it.

It blunts sharp edges,Unravels knots,Softens glare,Settles the dust.

It moves beneath all things, seen only in its effects,Where it came from no one can say,It was always there, the potential in nothingness."-- Verse IV, The Tao Te Ching.

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest." - Buddha"We are the silent. We are the outcast. We are the ones who survive. You can never 'be' us. You can never copy us. It's only one day when you realize that the bodies of all your enemies are at your feet that you realize that you are one of us."- Huntarded of Malygos

"My approach towards playing Survival is to think like a Survivalist. Get bitter. Get pessimistic. This spec is for those of us who can't depend on anyone or anything - including our own talents....Get crazy. Get paranoid. Know your limitations. Fight dirty.